I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“I had realized, by this time, that my path to power was to be immensely difficult and fraught with danger. But I did not look back.” [via, also]

Consider also:

  1. “I realized that I had found the key to illimitable knowledge and power, that I had started the path which enabled a man to transcend all the inflictions and disappointments of life.”
  2. “I always think of Mr Wells’ First Men in the Moon. How to act when the fundamental conditions of life are changed? The danger of making fatal mistakes is always present.”
  3. “The Path! One of the final secrets–listen!–is this: not even the inexpressible glory and rapture of the goal, but the Path itself, with all its dangers, hardships, and distress, is the reward worth while.”
  4. “The forces had other and worse effects. An employee (who had not touched alcohol for twenty years) suddenly got drunk and tried to murder his wife and children. This was one of many similar cases. One summer more than half my pack of bloodhounds died. My servants were always getting ill. One of the men I employed to lay down putting greens went insane and tried to murder my wife.”
  5. “They had curious effects on the neighbourhood. Part of the main road from Inverness to Fort Augustus ran through my estate. Soon superstitions about the road made the natives avoid it. People refused to use it after nightfall. Even the tough, hard-drinking workmen from Glasgow who were employed at Foyers would go a long way round to avoid that uncanny road.”